英语词汇学笔记--名词解释篇

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1、英语词汇学笔记之“名词解释篇”2010.1.11济南1.Word---Awordisaminimalfreeformofalanguagethathasagivensoundandmeaningandsyntacticfuntion.2.Morpheme---Amorphemeistheminimalsignificantelementinthecompositionofwords.3.FreemorphemesorContentmorphemes(Freeroot)---Theyaremorphemesthatmayconstitutewordsbythemselves:cat

2、,walk.4.BoundMorphemesorGrammaticalmorphemes---Theyaremorphemesthatmustappearwithatleastoneothermorpheme,eitherboundorfree:Catts,walk+ing.5.Boundroot---Aboundrootisthatpartofthewordthatcarriesthefundamentalmeaningjustlikeafreeroot.Unlikeafreeroot,itisaboundformandhastocombinewithothermorpheme

3、stomakewords.Take-dict-forexample:itconveysthemeaningof"sayorspeak"asaLatinroot,butnotasaword.Withtheprefixpre-(=before)weobtaintheverbpredictmeaning"tellbeforehand".6.Affixes---Affixesareformsthatareattachedtowordsorwordelementstomodifymeaningorfuntion.7.InflectionalmorphemesorInflectionalaf

4、fixes---Affixesattachestotheendofwordstoindicategrammaticalrelationshipsareinflectional,thusknownasinflectionalmorphemes.Thereistheregularpluralsuffix-s(-es)whichisaddedtonounssuchasmachines,desks.8.DerivationalmorphemesorDerivationalaffixes---Derivationalaffixesareaffixesaddedtoothermorpheme

5、stocreatenewwords.9.Prefixes---Prefixesareaffixesthatcomebeforetheword,suchas,pre+war.10.Suffixes---suffixesareaffixesthatcomeaftertheword,forinstance,blood+y.Derivationalmorphemes/derivationalaffixes---Aprocessofformingnewwordsbytheadditionofawordelement.Suchasprefix,suffix,combingformtoanal

6、readyexistingword.Prefixation----istheformationofnewwordsbyaddingprefixorcombingformtothebase.(Itmodifythelexicalmeaningofthebase)Suffixation---istheformationofanewwordbyaddingasuffixorcombingformtothebaseandusuallychangingtheword-classofthebase.Suchasboy.Boyish(noun-adjective)11.Root---Aroot

7、isthebasicformofawordwhichcannotbefurtheranalysedwithouttotallossofidentity.12.OpaqueWords--Wordsthatareformedbyonecontentmorphemeonlyandcannotbeanalysedintopartsarecalledopaquewords,suchasaxe,glove.13.TransparentWords--Wordsthatconsistofmore